Book Description
At the height of the Cold War era, an agreement between the governments of Britain and the USA saw the arrival in 1961 of USS Proteus in the River Clyde to set up a nuclear submarine base in the Holy Loch, Argyll, Scotland. Huge demonstrations against the nuclear threat were to follow. Scots were also incensed that this nuclear weapons facility was within a few miles of the country's biggest concentration of population. Yet the impact on the small Argyll town of dunoon was to be felt greatest over the following 31 years. Not only was the economic impact of 10,000 US Navy personnel and their families great, the social consequences are still with us today. Many marriages took place between local women and American men and one such relationship provided the catalyst for this detailed yet moving account of the movement of peoples brought about by larger forces.
